My friend Kale Zelden and I discuss the final pages of The Abolition of Man. In a world allegedly without objective values, what conditions the conditioners? Chesterton’s idea of play and rules providing freedom; the reality that a value-free neutrality does not exist; trans-humanism and post-humanism; the dismembering of nature and disenchantment;  the magician’s bargain: how the last step toward the abolition of man is unlike every prior step; the common ancestry of science and magic; how seeing through everything is the same as not to see.

Show notes:

The Abolition of Man – C.S. Lewis

After Humanity: A Guide to C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man – Michael Ward

Will the Future Be Human? – Yuval Noah Harari

Faustian bargain, Britannica.com

The Freedom of Boundaries in G.K. Chesterton – Zak Schmoll

Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraphs 675-676:  “The Church’s ultimate trial”

The music in the introduction and close of this podcast is provided by Dennis Crommett.